The article focuses on Anne Thackeray Ritchie's collection of fairy tales, "Five Old Friends", published in 1868. The "five friends" are Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and Jack the Giant Killer. Thackeray Ritchie's choice could reveal a nostalgia for fantasy, but her rendering suggests that the writer is fully pledged to modernity, and keen on emphasising gender roles with a kind of feminist slant. The "golden age of children's literature" meant not only the retrieval of Romantic fantasy into Victorian books for children, but the very notion of their lasting modernity.
Thackeray Ritchie's five old friends : latecomers, forerunners, evergreens? / F. Orestano. - In: LA QUESTIONE ROMANTICA. - ISSN 1125-0364. - 5:1/2(2013), pp. 51-64.
Thackeray Ritchie's five old friends : latecomers, forerunners, evergreens?
F. Orestano
2013
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The article focuses on Anne Thackeray Ritchie's collection of fairy tales, "Five Old Friends", published in 1868. The "five friends" are Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and Jack the Giant Killer. Thackeray Ritchie's choice could reveal a nostalgia for fantasy, but her rendering suggests that the writer is fully pledged to modernity, and keen on emphasising gender roles with a kind of feminist slant. The "golden age of children's literature" meant not only the retrieval of Romantic fantasy into Victorian books for children, but the very notion of their lasting modernity.
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